Sweta Viraktamath & Dietrich, 2011

Yang, Lin, Chen, Xiang-Sheng & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2012, First record of the leafhopper genus Sweta Viraktamath & Dietrich (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) from China, with description of one new species feeding on bamboo, ZooKeys 187, pp. 35-43 : 35-36

Sweta Viraktamath & Dietrich, 2011

Sweta Viraktamath & Dietrich, 2011: 1.

Type species.

Sweta hallucinata Viraktamath & Dietrich, 2011, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

Small size. Crown of the head strongly elevated above the anterior margin of the pronotum. Ocelli vestigial. Pronotum enlarged, strongly convex, and extended to the scutellar suture. Forewing broad, tectiform, with elongate, sinuate distal segments of veins R and M, closed preapical cells absent. Hind wing with the submarginal vein complete and veins RP and MA confluent. First hind tarsomere acuminate. Aedeagus fused to the connective. Female second valvulae asymmetrical.

Distribution.

Oriental region (Fig. 19).

Remarks.

This dikraneurine genus is remarkable because it has a feature unknown in other typhlocybinae but present in another leafhopper subfamily ( Signoretiinae ), i.e. the elongate pronotum. A full description of the genus was given by Viraktamath and Dietrich (2011).

Key to species of Sweta Viraktamath & Dietrich (male)